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GRADE isinkm SCHOOL LIFE
,by Gordon. Smith
Here are a few incidents that have
happened in grade nine in the last
week or so. Maybe they're true, may-
be they're fictional.
Grade nine was just oomfortably
settled for the math lesson, when Mr.
Knight interrupted its peaceful
slumber by addressing disgustingly Bill
Hinton], who was looking vacantly out
the window,
"Could you tell Hie why.you came
in here 'this morning?"
°Well, er, wh,- e mathematics," re-
plied Bill thoughtfully.
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When Mr. Ritter sustalneu, his arm
injury 3 weeks ago, he had the sym-
pathy of all his students. However, he
appeared to be in a rather cheerful
mood, and while we niners were dis-
cussing puns he thought of an excel-
lent example,
He stated; "When I received this in-
jury I ran into a wall." For those who
don't follow the exploits of our con-
genie!. English teacher t might add
that he got his injury when he check-
ed a Kincardine player named "Wall,"
in a hockey game in Wingham arena.
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When Mr. Turner was handing out
the History examination papers he
told the class that when the bell rang
concluding the period, all writing must
cease. However, Dave Slosser inter-
rupted, "You made a mistake, Mr.
Turner: you should have said, come
out swinging at the bell," From
these accounts of happenings at W.D.
H.S., you can see that High School
isn't a bad occupation after all, Al-
thOtigh at first it may .-pot APPeAt' that
way.
Purling *pert
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John Crawford r
On Mondaychampion Schoolboy
rink for Wingham was deelaeed. This
rink consisted of Ken Grc88- skip;
Don Mecham vice; Jack Elliott, sec,
P4d; John Wild, lead. The Gregg rink
defeated a rink skipped by John'
Crawford, to clinch the title, This was
the climax to a very successful season
for schoolboy curling in Wingham,
Every Monday afternoon. since the
Christmas holidays the boys have been
curling. Five rinks participated ;in a
round-robin schedule -drawn up for
them. When the schedule was com-
pleted Jim Bain's rink had been elim-
inated from further competition. On
the following week She four swinging
rinks played sudeleri,death playoff
matches, Gregg defeated Jack Hu-
bert's rink and Crawford, Ray Lott's
rink. The winners played in a best two
of three series with iS4regg's rink mil'
erging as champions,
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IN MEMORIAM
By `Catherine Keating • Death has struck. Yes, sadly I re-
port that 0 Henry the thirteenth turt-
le has died. Cause of death, by the
way, is believed to have been strangu-
lation or suffocation or some such big
word. The whole school mourns the
loss of clear little 0 Henry. He is sadly
With tears sn his eyes, our janitor,
Mr. Seddon, cremated the little fellow
in the furnace. Little 0 Henry has
gone to the land where all good little
turtles go. He will ever be remember,
ed with love and affection by the stud-
ents and staff of Wingham District
High school,
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l'ORDWIe. CORNER,
Linierielcs (by Grades XIA & XIB)
There was a man named Jack
Who stepped upon a crack
He was so thin
He fell right in
And never did come back,
Barry Symons
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A loco! young farmer named Durs.Ein
Drank cream every time he was thlr-
stin'
"Now a" broad leather belt
Where his middle has swelt
Is all that keeps him from burstin'.
Donald McKague
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There was a' young welsnman from
Wales,
Who lived on a diet of nails,
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Hosted with the funeral notice. Until I came to the very last line, provides Lots Of vetail think though I might,
It wouldn't Como right,
$0 I ended with something different.
Bert Watson
FIRE DESTROYS
r.voAN SCH.QQ14
Lucan Public Senool was destroyed
by fire early Thursday morning.
The caretaker noticed smell of
smoke when he was working on the
second floor about 7 a.m. Upon going
to the basement he found it filled
with smoke, He called the fire depart;
ment but they couldn't save anything.
All records were destroyed.
Fire was shooting from every win-
dow and the roof collapsed within an
hour. The building, on No. 4 highway
nearly across from the arena, housed
the high schoOl until the students
were moved to the new Medway
drool,
Public school pupils were then
transferred to this school as it Was
a better building than the one they
formerly used—Exeter Times-Advoe- 10 ete,
cteeasion4lly you get a bargain from
the Government, and in this writer's
opinion the biggest two bits' worth
to come out of Ottawa to date is the
topographic Map sheet put out by the
Department of Mines and Technica,
Surveys. For twenty-five cents, inept
age and a little patirnee you can learn
more about your own baeicyard er
anyone else's fen that matter, than
Would be neaSible in years of explor-
ing, investigating, or covering the ter-
ritory on foot. And you can do all this
at home in the comfort of your easy
chair.
Supposing we pay our -twenty-five
cents and get a map of the 'Ningham
district, If you're used to road maps
this is going to be an eye-creener. Poi
the scale of the map is 1 mile to
1 inch, and the average road map ;s
about 14 miles to an inch. Everything
on the Wingham map looms up pretty
big, so big, in fact that the map only
covers an area 25 miles long and 17
miles wide. It stretehea from Tees-
water on the north to Brussels on the
south, and from a mile or so east of
Fordwich to one half mile this side of
Lucknow, Harriston, Blyth, Lueknow
and a part of Teeswater are all "off
the map" on other sheets,
Naturally you can cram a lot of de-
tail into a map as large as that, For
instance every creek in the district is
shown, even the ones that dry up in
the summer, Every concession road
is shown, including those which were
surveyed but never built, and those
which were built but are never used,
Even the odd pathway is marked.
Take the town of Wingham, On the
map the town covers about a square
inch of space, being rougely an area
of about one square milts All the
streets are shown, and the- railway
lines, complete with switches, That
circle on Josephine street is the park,
and those little black dots are houses,
the Maitland, clearly marked for
There's the McKenzie biidge over
iron, The height of the water level in
the upper dam is marked -1017 feet
above sea level and around the High
school we can see from the contours
that the level is • anound 1100. And
there's the cemetery and ti e swamp
on the other side of the darn and the
school at Lower' Town and the CPR
station, About all they don't show is
the people on the street.
Unlike most maps the topographical
series show hills, by means of con-
tours at 25 foot intervals The effect
is as if each hill were sliced horizont-
ally every 25 feet, the -outline at each
level being drawn on the map. With a
bit of practice it's no trouble to pic-
ture the size and shape of the hills
and valleys, and other physical de-
tails such ass railway embankments
and cuttings. Cemeteries, various types
of buildings such as houses, barns,
mills, schools and churches, are all dis-
tinguished by different symbols,
Wooded areas are shown, either as
evergreen or deciduous, and swamps
have their own symbol, too, There are
also symbols for such things as elec-
tric power lines (on steel towers or
wood poles), tunnels, culverts, church-
es with spire, quarries, gravel pits,
cheese factories and swing bridges.
Each map is provisicd with a Refer-
ence for those who are apt to become
confused.
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The whole of Southern Ontario Iwo
now been mapped by the Department
In the rage to 1 inch soils. Sheets'
adjeceiit to the Wingham sheet are:
Kincardine, Lucknow, Goclerich, Sea-
forth, Conestoga Palmerston, Durham
and Walkerton, In addition to the
mile maps there are 2 nine to 1 inch-
scale maps of some sections of north-,
ern Ontario. Next come the 4 mile to-
•t inch maps, such as Bruce and Kit-
chener, which cover still more terri-
tory, but on a smaller scale, and the 8
mile to 1 inch sheets, covering an even
larger area, The 8 mile map on which
Wingnam appears, is the Windsor,
Toronto sheet, which is still much sup-
eriqr to an ordinary road map. Similar
snaps of the whole of Canada are ob-
tainable,
From a practical standpoint the t
mile map is a godsend to hunters and
fishermen, With such a map you never
need to get lost on a sideroari. Hunters
Will find it handy for locating the
right type of hunting country from the
lay of the land and the location of
bush and swamp, Fishermee can eas-
ily pick out interesting looking lakes
and streams, and sometimes you can
even pick a likely spot for the big
ones, right off the 'nap, first try.
And if you don't take things as ser-
iously as all that, but just like to do
a bit of exploring now and then, a
topographic map is bound ti give you
!lots of ideas.
'RED CROSS SICK ROOM
LOAN CUPBOARDS
Boys will be boys and a trick or
two on a femme meant a 'broken leg
for five-year-old Wayne Ronald
Weireh, of Winnipeg, Red Cross came
to his aid with the loan of a pair of
crutches to help him get eround until
he was ready for more exciting acti-.
vibes. Now sound and sturdy he is
shown returning the crutches to the
Sick Room Loan Supply Service.
Little Wayne is one of many thous-
ands of Canadians who call every year
for the loan of sick room supplies
from the Red Cross. All requests for
loans of sick room supplies, which
are made absolutely free of charge,
are checked with the family physcian
for the protection of the' patient, the
doctor and the Red Cross,
"In most Clinadian centres hospital
accomodation is difficult to obtain and•
snore and more cases of chronic or in-
curable diseases are being eared for
ip the home," stated Helen McArthur,
national director of Red Cross nursing
services. "Through the Red Cross it is
possible to obtain on loan such things
as hospital beds, back rests, bed pans
crutches and wheel chairs. Linen,
blankets, air rings end others are also
provided by the local Red Cross bran-
chee."
The Sick Room Loan Cupboards
have widened their scope in recent
years through the co-operation of local
departments of health and women's
organizations. Private rhyscians,
health and welfare agencies, nursing
services, as well as private individuals,
all make calls on them in more than
500 Red Cross centrc.s.
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